e New-Birth for such a parallel?

Let us appeal to the record of these processes.

In what terms does the New Testament describe them? The answer is
sufficiently striking. It uses everywhere the language of Biology. It is
impossible that the New Testament writers should have been familiar with
these biological facts. It is impossible that their views of this great
truth should have been as clear as Science can make them now. But they
had no alternative. There was no other way of expressing this truth. It
was a biological question. So they struck out unhesitatingly into the
new fields of words, and, with an originality which commands both
reverence and surprise, stated their truth with such light, or darkness,
as they had. They did not mean to be scientific, only to be accurate,
and their fearless accuracy has made them scientific.

What could be more original, for instance, than the Apostle's
reiteration that the Christian was a new creature, a new man, a
babe?[90] Or that this new man was "begotten of God," God's
workmanship?[91] And what could be a more accurate expression of the law
of Conformity to Type than this: "Put on the new man, which is renewed
in knowledge after the image of Him that created him?"[92] Or this, "We
are changed into the same image from glory to glory?"[93] And elsewhere
we are expressly told by the same writer that this Conformity is the end
and goal of the Christian life. To work this Type in us is the whole
purpose of God for man. "Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of His Son."[94]

One must confess that the originality of this entire New Testament
conception is most startling. Even for the nineteenth century it is the
most startling. But when one remembers that such an idea took form in
the first, one cannot fail to be impressed with a deepening wonder at
the system which begat and cherished it. Men seek the origin of
Christianity among philosophies of that age. Scholars contrast it still
with these philosophies, and scheme to fit it in to those of later
growth. Has it never occurred to them how much more it is than a
philosophy, that it includes a science, a Biology pure and simple? As
well might naturalists contrast zoology with chemistry, or seek to
incorporate geology with botany--the living with the dead--as try to
explain the spiritual life in terms of mind alone. When will it be seen
that the characteristic of the Christian Religion is its